2br, Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, $3,700

Vinegar Hill

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Vinegar Hill is, in many ways, a relic of decades past.

This sleepy little neighborhood has retained a sense of 19th century charm despite the modernization that has encroached upon it from all sides. The area was named for a 1798 battle of the Irish Rebellion; “Vinegar Hill” was an English translation of a Gaelic term meaning “hill of the wood of the berries.